I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.

Life is too short to worry about anything

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Once you become a vegan, the food of the world opens up to you.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.